By Hightower                                          H.B. No. 1979
       74R7192 GWK-F
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the procedures for selling state property under the
    1-3  management and control of the Texas Board of Criminal Justice.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Subchapter A, Chapter 496, Government Code, is
    1-6  amended by adding Section 496.0021 to read as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 496.0021.  SALE OF DEPARTMENT REAL PROPERTY.  The board
    1-8  may sell state-owned real property under the board's management and
    1-9  control at the real property's fair market value.  The General Land
   1-10  Office shall negotiate and close a transaction under this section
   1-11  on behalf of the board using procedures under Section 31.158(c),
   1-12  Natural Resources Code.  Proceeds from the transaction shall be
   1-13  deposited in the Texas capital trust fund.
   1-14        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-15  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-16  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-17  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-18  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-19  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-20  passage, and it is so enacted.